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Arbres, arbustes et lianes des zones sèches d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
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ISBN: 9782759203130 2759203131 9782856536261 2856536263 Year: 2009 Publisher: Versailles : Paris : QUAE ; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle,


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Desert plants : biology and biotechnology
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ISBN: 3642025498 9786612830778 3642025501 1282830775 Year: 2010 Publisher: Heidelberg ; New York : Springer,

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Deserts appear very fascinating during our short visits. However, the lives of plants and animals are very dif?cult under the harsh climatic conditions of high tempe- ture and scant water supply in deserts, sometimes associated with high concent- tions of salt. The editor of this book was born and brought up in the Great Indian Desert, and has spent much of his life studying the growth and metabolism of desert plants. It is very charming on a cool summer evening to sit at the top of a sand dune listening only to blowing air and nothing else. It has been my dream to prepare a volume on desert plants encompassing various aspects of desert plant biology. In this book, I have tried to present functional and useful aspects of the vegetation resources of deserts along with scienti?c input aimed at understanding and impr- ing the utility of these plants. The scant vegetation of deserts supports animal life and provides many useful medicines, timber and fuel wood for humans. Therefore, there are chapters devoted to medicinal plants (Chap. 1), halophytes (Chaps. 13, 14), and fruit plants (Chaps. 17, 20). Desert plants have a unique reproductive biology (Chaps. 9–11), well-adapted eco-physiological and anatomical charact- istics (Chap. 7), and specialised metabolism and survival abilities. These plants are dif?cult to propagate and pose many problems to researchers developing biote- nological approaches for their amelioration (Chaps. 18–20).


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Notes on trees and shrubs in arid and semi-arid regions
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ISBN: 9251013543 9789251013540 Year: 1983 Publisher: Rome FAO

Physiologie des arbres et arbustes en zones arides et semi-arides : Séminaire Paris-Nancy, 20 mars-6 avril 1990.
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ISBN: 2742000194 Year: 1993 Publisher: Montrouge : John Libbey Eurotext,

Ecophysiology of economic plants in arid and semi-arid lands
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ISBN: 3540521712 3642080898 3662037009 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berlin Springer

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Plant ecology. Plant sociology --- Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- Plant physiology. Plant biophysics --- ECO Ecology --- arid regions --- ecology --- economic botany --- ecophysiology --- ethnobotany --- semi-arid regions --- Ecology . --- Plant ecology. --- Environmental sciences. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Agriculture. --- Forestry. --- Ecology. --- Plant Ecology. --- Environmental Science and Engineering. --- Plant Sciences. --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Environmental science --- Science --- Botany --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Ecology --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Floristic botany --- Floristic ecology --- Arid regions plants --- Plants, Useful --- Ecophysiology. --- Adaptation. --- Useful plants --- Plants and civilization --- Botany, Economic --- Arid regions flora --- Xerophytes

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